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Comment by Jayrok

Simply remove anything with durability and corpse run onto the boat to Azuremyst at Auberdine. (Middle of the Docks)

Head to the location on the map shown, and congrats on your new pet.

Also when he tames, he appears VERY small. It's unique though.Almost as small as a non-combat pet.

Comment by Azgrend

These types of spiders also make very loud sounds while attacking and being attacked. It seems the sound is always played at the character instead of at the spider itself.

Comment by Linnia

He's way in the back up a hill at approx 18, 35

Comment by Hurode

It's worth pointing out that this spider has a completely unique skin - no other spider in the game is -exactly- the same, though a few are close. If you're a hunter wanting a pet that not many people have (If I see one more night elf hunter with one of the Teldrassil/Darkshore cats, I will scream. Mine has Echeyakee), this is well worth the trip to Bloodmyst.

Spiders have +7% DPS over standard pet damage, just the Bite skill, and eat only meat, making them not the most desirable pet, but it makes cool/creepy noises that can have a kind of psychological effect in PvP, especially if your enemy happens to be arachnophobic. I still like spiders (especially this one), but I like unconventional pets anyway.

It's a pipe dream, but I think it'd be really cool if spiders got a Web skill soon, perhaps in Wrath, that acts as a short (let's say 2-4 seconds depending on rank) CC to keep a mob or enemy in place so they can't run. They'd still be fully able to fight back or what have you, and put it on a 45sec cooldown to balance it. Sound fair? I'd love that. It'd be great for solo play to stop mobs that run at X% health and would be cool for PvP to temporarily slow down flag runners and such. I'd really love to see something besides Scorpids with solid PvP utility.

Comment by theASCHE360

i was very exited to get this pet, but now that i tamed it...

its freaking small and my god! too lousy! i dont like it at all, ill submit a screen so u guys can see its size

Comment by wowaddict777

Actually, I'm thinking a smal pet might not be bad. My first character was a Warlock, and I absolutely HATED that big @#$@ Voidwalker. It was always blocking my camera view, or the item I wanted to click on, etc. I hate to think what a pain a larger spider might be...?

Comment by Dnartrahk

If you play the expansion of WC3 you'll see the Nerubians; actually, they look more like silithids than spiders (in wc3 at least).

And a spider snare would indeed be awesome IMO, cuz thats the only reason I personnaly dont have a spider on my hunter: the lack of skills... lots of the mobs spiders have one, but once you tame them, they magically unlearn it ... whats up with that ?

Kudos to Blizz for fixing that problem in the xpak, with the new training pet trees, at least all pets get some kind of skills, rather than just a select few... but still no snares for spiders =(...

Ima kinda miss the whole hunting for skills tho, cuz thats one of the things that appealed to me as a hunter: was the fact that you had to actually live up to the name hunter in order for your pet to be of any use. On the up side tho, since now not all pets of the same family will be exactly the same, with all the different options in the pet trees, it will put back the notion of uniqueness to your pets.

Comment by Hammerskull

Hunter debates notwithstanding...Zarakh is huge, and scared the living bajeezus out of me. Watch out.

Comment by emmalgarside

I tamed Zarakh at lvl 20. He is still a lvl behind me (22/21) and I've noticed that he doesn't keep up when I run. Anyone else having this issue? He falls behind about as fast whether I'm in cheetah or not - it seems to be a % run speed thing.

Comment by Elodarian

Has any one tamed him yet on 3.0.2?

Is he still tiny?

Comment by waterboy2470

I tamed it when i was like level 30 and he looked cool.I should tell you when he is tamed he shrinks.I mean not like a normal pet but this one was tiny!

Comment by dclpt

It might be worth noting for those of you who care, This guy has no swimming animation.

My previous spider was the black widow lookin bastards in the eastern part of Tiristfal Glades, and I always found his swimming animation rather humorous. (He looked all soaked and #$%^ed and just kinda floated with his legs dangling mindlessly. Gave swimming around at a slow pace something at least semi-entertaining.) This guy just kinda stands there in the water, like hes on land or something.

He also does indeed has a nasty loud cry when you send him to attack. I can't decide if I like it better than the old spiders hiss.

Well either way, just thought I would let you guys know that random tidbit of info.

-Lhàrzriyal, lvl 64 Blood Elf Hunter - Hellscream

Comment by Vawdkah

Just tamed at 19 for my twink. Great skin, kind of small, but o well. It's like gnomes, hard to click on :P

Comment by Silvern

When I tamed him (at level 19) he was tiny, as reported here. And I liked the idea of a tiny spider pet! ;p

Unfortunately I just took him out of the stables again (I'm now level 22), and he is much bigger, the size of a regular spider pet.

Has this happened to anyone else? Did Bliz change/fix his size?

How disappointing to those of us who liked him small...

Comment by Gohlusk

An excellent twink pet choice, if only to annoy the hell out of your opponents with the noise.

Comment by Vehemence

Would you like to know why they made it's size so small when they tame it?

Because they know the half of the WoW Populace has arachnophobia! Especially when it's (big?),red,angry and charging towards you (The beast within).

Comment by Veev

It's been reported that Zarakh has some difficulties with moving up stairs and through doors. This can make it difficult to use this pet to pull.

Comment by Raynos

how do i get there, im a horde in darkshore, do i just go in front of the boat or what? pls respond

Comment by Willerka

Why drown under the boat when u can stand on it? no guards attack u on it so long u stands in the middle of the boat and its only like players under lvl 20 thats using the boat? lols

Comment by shika

Still really small at my patch.

Comment by Moohahaha

The real question is how a 19 huntard twink (of Horde side, that is) will manage to reach Bloodmyst with Auberdine's boats out of commission.

Comment by tnhalbertsma

Actually spent years getting to Rut'theran. Finally whn I got on the boat I found out I needed TBC to get there. I was already planning to get it, and TBC is super cheap so I went ahead and bought it. On Azure/Bloodmyst it was pretty painful too, a lot of aggro monsters, specially on Bloodmyst. Probably spent 5 hours (and 7 euros, lol) just getting to Zarakh. Kinda doubted if it was worth it at first, but it's awesome now! In pvp the web allows you to get off a free Aimed Shot, and in pve it's just another monster you won't get damaged by. She deals pretty sweet DPS too, more than enough imo. But she really does shine in pvp, web that flag carrier, 4 seconds is a LOT in situations like that.

All in all, get Zarakh. It's worth it (: haven't touched my Monkey, Moth, Raptor and Wolf since. And to speed up the dying under the boat thing, just command your pet to attack the NE guards. After having owned your pet they'll come after you and one shot you with ease. Think that's faster than drowning :)

Also... Don't give up, it was super painful, I know, but in the end it's worth it :D

Comment by Tzartzalos

guys you know any place near Orgrimmar or somewhere close to ? plz reply me of pm me/add me in game (i have that name)

Comment by Nervevrak

just got it for pvp, love how small it gets! haha, and it looks amazing ^^

Comment by ajbest

OK, call me a sissy or what have ya, but this quest is going to have me in nightmares. I am deathly afraid of spiders, and made it through and killed everything but momma! Anybody have a way I can get in and out of there quickly, I can't have nightmares two nights in a row.

Anybody?

~AJ

Comment by Fiammata

Has a loud, piercing attack-noise as a Hunter pet, which can be very interesting on occasion, or seriously annoying when used repetitively...

Hint: Good for Battlegrounds, Bad for Instances. Your teammates will thank you.